Monday, October 12, 2009
Researcher on Virginia Tech team takes Nobel Prize
Courtesy of Virginia Tech
Elinor Ostrom was today awarded a share of the 2009 prize based on her work on how community institutions can prevent conflict. She is the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics.
Elinor Ostrom was today awarded a share of the 2009 prize based on her work on how community institutions can prevent conflict.
A professor of political science at Indiana University and founding director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University, Ostrom is also a researcher for the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program, managed by Virginia Tech’s Office of International Research, Education and Development. She is part of a team that works on one of SANREM CRSP’s five long-term research projects.
“SANREM CRSP has been fortunate to have her on its research team,” said program director Theo Dillaha in a release.
“Her work in Uganda, Kenya, Mexico and Bolivia on how government policy reforms such as decentralization affect forest sustainability and forest users has been groundbreaking.”
Ostrom, 76, shares the $1.4 million prize with Oliver Williamson, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
